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...Trustees should make it their business to speak up for the students when the occasion demands, because the students themselves come and go and have little influence. To cite just one small example, last year at Harvard an enterprising student noticed that the Harvard Coop was selling the required books at high prices. So the student decided to publish a list of required books with their ISBN numbers online to make it easy for students to order them from other sources. As the student made his way through the Coop writing down these numbers, he was threatened with arrest...
...always looked at the world in a way that wasn’t mainstream America. He was uniquely competent and very sure of himself.”Many of his peers said that the actions taken by Fitzsimmons during his tenure as dean have been highly innovative. They cite the abolition of early admission and the implementation of the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative—which eliminates parents’ financial contribution for low-income families and reduces it for higher income families—as examples of his creative thinking.“Fitz has such a vision...
...says. “If you don’t control that on our network, it will literally eat up the entire network. [...] Yes, those apps will run slowly, and that is by design.”In addition to trouble connecting in the first place, some students also cite problems of security on the Harvard network. “I have a friend in Kirkland who got identity-thefted on the wireless network,” says Justin W. White ’10, claiming that the friend lost $900. To avoid identity theft, Selsby urges students...
...Joseph Cirincione, a missile-defense expert recently named president of the pro-disarmament Ploughshares Fund, told Congress a week earlier that the missile threat faced by the U.S. actually has declined in recent decades. Two-thirds of the nations cited by Cheney "have only short-range ballistic missiles with ranges under 1,000 kilometers - basically Scuds. This is often ignored when officials or experts cite the 30 countries with ballistic missile capability." The long-range missiles threatening the U.S. have shrunk by 71% over the past 20 years, he said, and are based in Russia and China. Five nations have...
...roughly one-third of all practicing doctors in the U.S. It's a level of penetration that could finally lend consistency to the country's electronic health-records industry, which to date has been plagued by thousands of conflicting software systems. Along with cost and privacy concerns, doctors often cite this lack of connectivity as a major reason they haven't made the move from paper to digital record-keeping. The Allscripts-Misys agreement could help overcome that barrier. "Our aim is to create the Microsoft Office for health care," Allscripts CEO Glen Tullman says, "to develop a standard...